How to deal with Authors' books?

If my sim writes a book, I make several copies and only one is for publishing. I do have one dedicated library which will always remain a library (the one in willow creek) and drop at least one book there. I also leave magic tomes at the magic realm and familiars for other sims. The trick with leaving books on a public space is to put it away in the bookcase yourself. That way it will not be taken back with you. 

It wasn't always this way, you could leave pretty much anything on a lot - but it's a bit finicky now. When your sim goes home, they can take stuff back with them. Just put the books away and they should stay on the lot. You can still leave crystals or other collectables without issue. 

Thank you all for good advice! I'm giving this all some more thinking before implementing a tradition. I'd wish there was an easier way than up/downloading a room, because it will not happen just once, but every time a sim writes a book. But, if I create my own book covers, those would not been seen in the library anyway, so well... That goes for the retail as well, but there I could at least visualize through custom posters showing off the Author/book cover. It would get tedious doing posters for every single book, but there could be a selection.

Gifting a few copies might be a good idea, just need a routine for it.

I might end up simply imagining again... I often do that in this game, and move the visualizing to my web page and blog.

SimmervilleIf your active sim leaves their book lying around in a community venue like a library, the game will put it back in their personal inventory when they leave the lot, so you can't do it that way. If you want the books in the library, you'll have to follow SheriSim advice about saving a book room. I don't know whether or not a bookstore would work. Let us know if you try it. If it's possible to select a book as an item for sale, then that should solve the problem of copies, because you can just do the restock function. 

I think that is the easiest way! Man, I love this game play idea. Never thought to do that. I just make authors write from home. Never thought of doing it like this. How cool.

You can also upload a small room with books in it to the gallery, have a little outside area at the book store or Library where you can download the room,  then remove the books and delete the room.

Sigh. Retail store is the only way I can think of to get your Sims' books out there. In TS3 the books would automatically be placed in the library -- at least in Sunset Valley. I can't remember whether they'd show up in other worlds, too. But yes, if you want a book to be in a library, your Sim has to place it there. I suppose you could have your writer Sims drop them off in a library, and your publisher Sim could pick them up. Or they could just gift them.

The only thing I know is that screenplays are generally the most lucrative. Playing around with titles is really the only way I know of to make them interesting.